On 03/10/2010 04:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 13:47 10/03/2010 -0800, Gary Noop wrote: >>Sorting through a flat data file (GEDCOM genealogy database file) in >>Writer (3.2 - linux) and I am attempting to find and replace the following: >> >>lowercase m preceded by a space and followed by uppercase A-Z. >> >>Example: >> (space)mAnderson >>replace as >> (space)Anderson >> >>I found that I can easily _find_ using: >> m[A-Z] >>but can't figure out how to replace the 'm' with a space and leave >>the following A-Z letter in place. >> >>Any suggestions on how I accomplish this? > > Yes: just enclose the part you want to keep in parentheses; you can > then refer to that in the "Replace with" field. Search for: > m([A-Z]) > and replace with: > $1 > - where both those strings have a leading space, of course. The "$1" > in the "Replace with" field refers to the first (here the only) > parenthesised reference in the "Search for" string. So the replace > string is a space followed by whatever capital letter was matched by > your [A-Z]. > > You will need to have both "Match case" and "Regular expressions" > ticked, of course - but you knew that. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker
Brian... you rock as always! :-) I was worrying that I'd have to go through each instance individually (many, many Mb file). As always, thanks! Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
